Lubbock ISD board members sworn in, new officers elected

Steve Massengale becomes new LISD board president

Steve Massengale, Dan Pope and Melissa Collier were selected as the new officers of the Lubbock Independent School District board of trustees at a Monday meeting.

Massengale replaced James Arnold as president, Pope replaced Massengale as vice president and Collier replaced Mario Ybarra as secretary of the board.

Pope, Collier, Ybarra and Mark Blankenship — the four trustees who were elected May 12 — were sworn in at the meeting, along with Vernita Woods-Holmes, who did not draw an opponent and was previously declared winner of the District 2 trustee seat.

Trustees approved the canvassing of the votes of the May 12 election and certified the results at Monday’s meeting before the swearing-in ceremony.

Massengale praised his fellow board members after he was voted in as the new president.

He noted volunteers on community boards don’t get to choose their fellow board members any more than they get to choose their relatives and added he was fortunate to serve with them.

“This board has the right chemistry to be productive for the children of Lubbock,” he said.

Massengale said the board chemistry is the reason it was chosen last year as the 2011 Outstanding School Board of Texas by the Texas Association of School Administrators.

He praised Arnold’s leadership and said it has been rewarding and fun to serve on the LISD board with him.

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LISD Board of Trustees

There are five members elected from single-member districts and two elected at-large